and THAT, would have been the narrative if F&F wasn't leaked to the press...
Posted on 05/31/2016 1:44:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Judicial Watch: Justice Department Documents Reveal Widespread Use of Fast and Furious Weapons by Major Mexican Drug Cartels – Linked to at least 69 Killings
From December 2012 to March 2016, 94 Fast and Furious weapons were seized; Fast and Furious weapon found in “Chapo” Guzman hideout
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today released Justice Department documents showing that weapons sent from the U.S. into Mexico as part of the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning program have been widely used by major Mexican drug cartels.
According to the new records, over the past three years, a total of 94 Fast and Furious firearms have been recovered in Mexico City and 12 Mexican states, with the majority being seized in Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa. Of the weapons recovered, 82 were rifles and 12 were pistols identified as having been part of the Fast and Furious program. Reports suggest the Fast and Furious guns are tied to at least 69 killings.
Fast and Furious was a Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gunrunning” operation in which the Obama administration allowed guns to be sold to Mexican drug cartels in the hope the weapons would be recovered at crime scenes. Fast and Furious weapons have been implicated in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of other innocents in Mexico. Prior reports tie Fast and Furious weapons to at least 200 deaths in Mexico alone.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents last month in response to a March 17, 2016, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seeking the following:
All records identifying the locations (including, but not limited to, crime scenes and the locations of seizures) at which firearms – that were identified during the course of or due to Operation Fast and Furious – have been recovered by law enforcement personnel. The documents show 94 Fast and Furious firearms were seized, 20 were identified as being involved in “violent recoveries.” The “violent recoveries” involved several mass killings:
June 30, 2014 — One 7.62mm rifle recovered in Tlatlaya, Estado de Mexico. This is the reported date and location of a shootout in which 22 people were killed. May 22, 2015 — Two 7.62mm rifles recovered from the site of a massive shootout in Rancho el Sol, Michoacán, that left one Mexican Federal Police officer and 42 suspected cartel members dead. August 7, 2015 — One 7.62mm rifle was among five firearms reported as recovered from an abandoned stolen vehicle in which three dead shooting victims were found in Parral, Chihuahua. January 29, 2013 — One 7.62mm rifle seized in Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco is reportedly related to the assassination of the town police chief, Luis Lucio Astorga and his bodyguard. January 11, 2016 — One .50 caliber rifle seized from the Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s hideout in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, where he was (re)arrested. In October 2014, Judicial Watch uncovered the fact that an AK 47 rifle used in a July 29, 2013, gang-style assault on an apartment building that left two people wounded was part of the Obama Department of Justice’s Fast and Furious gunrunning program.
“These documents show President Obama’s legacy includes one of gunrunning and violence in Fast and Furious,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “As the production of documents from the ATF continues, we expect to see even further confirmation of Obama’s disgraced former Attorney General Eric Holder’s prediction that Fast and Furious guns will be used in crimes for years to come.”
In 2014, Judicial Watch litigation forced the disclosure of Fast and Furious documents to Congress after years of delay.
Judicial Watch has a related active lawsuit seeking access to all records of communications between the Department of Justice and the House Oversight Committee relating to settlement discussions in the Committee’s 2012 contempt of Congress lawsuit against then-Attorney General Eric Holder (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:13-cv-1344)). The contempt citation stemmed from Holder’s refusal to provide documents to Congress related to the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.
Working as intended
See? This is PROOF that American guns are being used by criminals! See???? We sold them the guns and they’re using them!! SEE????
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A mass murder plot, pure and simple, concocted and authorized by Obola and Holder to destroy the Second Anendment.
Correct. He is probably issuing guns to those he is releasing from prison, too. . . bad is good . . . good is bad.
Treasonous, but what difference does it make now?/s
and THAT, would have been the narrative if F&F wasn't leaked to the press...
It was never a “gunrunning operation”. It was to arm the cartels whom run the border, and expedite the invasion.
If only we had a Republican majority Congress with balls.
‘...the Obama administration allowed guns to be sold to Mexican drug cartels in the hope the weapons would be recovered at crime scenes.’
Completely false. The primary objective of F&F was to create data as the basis for more anti-gun legislation (at all levels of govt but primarily federal). Anything else was secondary and a ‘fringe benefit’. Remember if you will that around the time F&F was in full swing the Barry administration had primed the press with stories of American guns causing harm S of the border. The narrative was American gun owners are bad and the 2ndA must be curtailed....all to save Mexicans.
Also should mention that the ATF (aka F Troop) had no controls on guns that went S of the border. So, when they left the country they disappeared from LE radar completely. Federal LE had NO idea who had them, where they were going or if they would turn up again. I strongly believe they never had a complete list of serial numbers either and the number of F&F guns is FAR larger than the govt will admit to.
Yes.
Hundreds of Mexicans have died from Obama's Fast and Furious gun trafficking.
Operation Fast & Furious had as its central purpose the subversion of the US Constitution. The program's strategy was to gin up a furor over guns sourced in the US being used in Mexican crime so that the US public could be stampeded into restricting the 2nd Amendment. Since few such guns were being used in Mexico more had to be supplied. They also had to show up at crime scenes so that they could be traced back to the US to 'prove' the Obama administration's assertions.
The GOP should be harping on one message every time F&F is mentioned. To wit:
F&F was a program cynically designed to result in Mexican deaths - so that 'evil' US-sourced guns could be found at the crime scenes and US gun laws could be blamed for the carnage. Holder, Napolitano, Hillary and Obama and a host of their minions cooked up this program knowing that Mexicans would die - in fact, needing Mexicans to die for this scheme to work. The Obama administration was cynically willing to slaughter Hispanics to accomplish their political purposes. The only "botch" in the scheme was F&F guns turning up to get Americans killed too.
‘Hundreds of Mexicans have died from Obama’s Fast and Furious gun trafficking.”
You can bet he’s given lots of concessions to Mexico over it as well.
Mexico just needs to Issue a WARRANT for Holder’s Arrest, I am positive President Trump will not fight the Extradition.
ATF field agents were ordered to let the straw-buyers cross the border and leave their surveillance, against their own strenuous objections, or "find another job."
Here is testimony, under oath, to all of the above by four ATF field agents.
The Department of Justice ’ s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents
Guns are not out of control. The Federal government is out of control.
And 2 guys on Sipsey Street Irregulars blew the ATF cover.
We owe David Codrea & Mike Vanderboegh a debt of gratitude.
Guns are not out of control. The Federal government is out of control.
Did they remember to thank obama for the tools of the trade...?
Guns are not out of control. The Federal government is out of control.
Unfortunately true.
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